BBC presenter apologizes for four-letter gaffe

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LONDON (Reuters) - A BBC Radio 4 presenter apologized on Monday after he mangled the phrase “Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt” and produced a profanity heard live on air.

“I’m afraid many of you will have noticed that I landed in one of those awful verbal tangles just before eight o’clock,” Today presenter James Naughtie said in an apology some 20 minutes after his slip-up.

“All I can say is occasionally in live broadcasting these things happen and I’m very sorry to anyone who thought it wasn’t what they wanted to hear over their breakfast.”